Raiders have never gotten away with a pawn i cared about. I usually only get them for refugees that turn out to suck, and I only accepted because they're relatives and forgot to check their skills and traits.

(Also because I never bothered to learn the job to skills comparison, and sometimes get a pawn with uselessly low skills sometimes.)

I would have acted differently, going one of two ways depending on how much of an a-hole I was inclined to be that day:

1) Make up some BS after testing the wall outlet and claiming there was a "low voltage" at her outlet and that she'd need to supplement her charger with the network cable, explaining that she should plug it into the network first so it can get 'telemetry' on the local power grid, so it can talk to the charger to get the correct charging it needs. (Being extra careful to avoid mentioning 'PoE' to avoid future scream sessions)

2) take pictures and send a follow-up email with very clear details on the root cause, making dead sure that even if I had no job to come home to, that all of management and IT knew she was absolutely and utterly computer illiterate, to the point that she would never get an IT person flown out to her again without making damn sure it wasn't yet another $2000+ 'user error' (actually much higher, the cost of 8 replacement laptops and the flight.) Granted, I would phrase it all like it was a perfectly understandable error and that it was more of a company wide PSA and not a "Lookit this dumb B", but there are people who can see through that and yell loud enough at HR to ruin my future employment.

You really don't need a freezer until you have enough food production to store some away before it rots.

Just as good is digging into a hill first, really you shouldn't need more than a 4x4 space to put down sleeping spots and some storage for things that degrade outdoors. Mining skill goes up and your pawns get faster at it fairly fast, whereas you need a mod now to have stonecutting boost crafting to allow faster workers. Using wood for the door into your hole in the wall is just fine at first, and preferable with how slow stone doors are.

A trick for vanilla is to have your pawn that's destined for cutting to build a chessboard or two first. It's recreation when finished and will make cutting those blocks faster. Do this while your miners are making a hole in the hill to survive in the first few days, then you not only have a skilled up cutter, but some chunks to cut without having to wander over the map to gather them.

If you play open maps without hills, then stone is going to slow you way down. Some temp wood structures to get started is the best way if you don't have any hills/mountains.